mendacious
Adjective Satellite
- given to lying
- "a mendacious child"
- intentionally untrue
- "a mendacious statement"
Adj
- Lying, untruthful or dishonest.
- False or untrue.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French mendacieux, from Latin mendācium (“lie, untruth”), from mendāx (“lying”).
Synonyms
bastard, counterfactual, erroneous, fallacious, false, fictitious, inaccurate, incorrect, invented, made up, nonfactual, nontrue, nontruthful, pseudo-, spurious, untrue, untruthful, unveracious, unveridical, wrong
Scrabble Score: 15
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